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Water Problem Areas

 
All the blue arrows point to potential moisture problems. Let's start at the bottom of the stairs. This picture was taken just a few hours after it rained. You can see the moisture around the bottom of the stair stringers. The wood stringers shouldn't be in direct contact with concrete. The next arrow up points to a large crack in the stair tread. This crack will absorb a lot of water into the tread and can be fixed with a good paintable caulking. The next arrow up points to the edge of the stair tread up aganist the stringer. This is a bad spot if the pocket routered into the stinger is to big or if the tread as it dried out started to shrink, causing a gap.

The next spot is Stairs Next To Stucco Problem .

The top of the stairs is a problem only if the wood touches the wood or the stucco.

 

4 x 12 Stair Stringer Trip Hazard

Metal Handrailing With Incorrect Length

Handrail Painting Problems

Exterior Stair Water Drainage

Open Stairs Cleaning Problems

Bad Wood Handrail

Exterior Wood Stair Problems

Unsafe Stairs

 

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